Ianus J. Wolf

Chuck, portrayed by Paul Scheer, a member of the Good Place Committee: "He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy."

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

"Wow, we had such an amazing win on Tuesday, and we seem to really have the support of people across the country to keep fighting!" *lights up a molotov and throws it into their own rebel base* "Hey, Liar McRich just promised that if I do this now, we'll possibly get a concession in a month or two."

This super-duper pinky swear from people who are literally known for constantly breaking their word is a ridiculous reason to cave on millions of people's healthcare costs now. You can't be so naive as to think they'll keep this promise, which only tells us you've all been bought off some other way.

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

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AI generated content disclosure via Arc Raider's Steam page: The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: During the development process, we may use procedural- and AI-based tools to assist with content creation. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice.

They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

Hey, friendly reminder that Scott Cawthon's donations to the GOP literally contributed to SNAP suspension and you shouldn't buy or stream Five Nights at Freddy's anything.

So, heading into the holidays, the Trump administration is making it its goal to:
-Destroy people's ability to get any kind of food
-Screw up air travel (and other forms of travel in a domino effect)
-Keep inflation/tariffs that will impact the biggest shopping season for millions of Americans.

Cancel Paramount+ if you haven't already and boycott anything owned by David Ellison's dogshit companies.

Say no to privately owned McCarthyism from billionaires that shouldn't exist.

I think authors and publishers should where that like a badge of honor if it happens. I think the various writing guilds should make genre-style patches and challenge coins for all the authors involved saying, "Yeah, we killed that. Killed it dead. Long live real creation!"

"Why do they wish violence on us? All we've done is openly talk about eliminating various groups of people for decades, elect a monster to the presidency, celebrate as he shreds the Constitution and abuses power, cheer when innocent people are violently abducted off the streets. We're the victims!"

Every time Mike Johnson speaks and starts spewing his straight-up lies, all I see is:

"Skynet, the computer which controlled the machines, sent two terminators back in time. ... We quickly learned that we had blown this threat WAY out of proportion and had very little to worry about."

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Important to remember after yesterday: the rich and powerful are about to do EVERYTHING THEY CAN to sabotage every Dem that just flipped a seat. And the rich and powerful can manage a lot of evil.
So when things are not absolutely perfect in a couple years, keep that in mind, and keep voting.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Well, every bisexual about my age just pumped their fist in the air if this actually comes to fruition.

"But what if people buy treats or luxury meats with their SNAP?"

Good! It was probably because it was on sale and they could enjoy something nice! I'm GLAD we bought that for them through taxes! It makes me happy to have a hand in making other people happy, because I'm not a psychotic narcissist!

In case any other trans folks need to hear this:

Really tired of every lame excuse that people addicted to cruelty and malice will come up with as to why it's "okay" to starve other human beings based on some arbitrary classification of why some people "don't deserve" to eat.

It's senseless and purely evil oft cloaked in righteousness.

Math teachers: "Let's do a vaguely horror-themed group costume about the difficulty of solving some math problems. That's Halloweeny."

Right-Wingers: "This has to be specifically about the one murder of our very specific hater-mongering dickwaffle that died this year! Everything's always about US!"

Gee, funny how everything that Mastercard's malevolent executives label as "high fraud risk" exactly matches the list of moral panic boogeymen that right-wingers have been trying to scare people about for the last several decades. Amazing how those just sync up somehow.

Keep calling.

Whatever elections are going on in your municipalities today, make sure to make time to vote, even if it seems like small stuff.

Every level of governance has an impact along the way, and small-minded authoritarian bigots often start at local levels. Vote to deny them any sort of power.

Her generation's overall mentality seems for way too long to have been, "We are the ultimate generation; we are immortal and shall never wither, and thus all later generations are stealing something from us by trying to be something. We must never truly pass the torch. Ever."

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

"If we go, we'll take our weird LARP that we play with your money and have turned into a complete disjointed and backwards parasite on any actual economy with us!"

Promise? Because that's just more motivation to get rid of billionaires.

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

I want that to be a simple requirement of holding any office actually. In that interim between winning and swearing in, when you're the ____-elect, you have to spend that whole interim living at a poverty wage and budgeting SNAP benefits. Would be eye-opening for a lot of privileged politicians.